Today I pledged $25 to the Kickstarter campaign for the upcoming documentary film BIG FAT MOUNTAIN:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bigfatmountain/big-fat-mountain This film is about a woman named Kara Richardson Whitely, of Summit, New Jersey, who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro despite struggling with the challenge of weighing 300 pounds. Kara was a colleague of mine at my first job out of college: working as a reporter at the Courier News in Bridgewater. Good luck Kara! THE IDEA: One of the interesting things that happened during a Kickstarter fundraising campaign for my own film, SOURLANDS, is that someone pledged $1. I remember opening up my email and thinking “Why did someone just give me a dollar?”

I Googled around and soon discovered that the $1 came from a man who is giving $1 every single day of 2012 to a different Kickstarter project and, just as importantly, helping promote each of these projects on his website.

This has inspired me to do the same. Once a week for at least the next year, I’m going to pledge at least $5 to a documentary film project on Kickstarter that looks interesting. I’ll also help promote each of these projects on the Sourlands blog (http://www.sourlands.com/blog.html) and the Sourlands Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/Sourlands). I hope you'll stead this idea!